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416425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20United%20States%20senators%20from%20New%20Hampshire | List of United States senators from New Hampshire | New Hampshire was admitted to the Union on June 21, 1788. It elects United States senators to class 2 and class 3. The state's current senators are Democrats Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan. Senator Shaheen is currently serving her third term (since 2009); Senator Hassan is currently serving her second term (since 201... |
416434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20United%20States%20senators%20from%20New%20York | List of United States senators from New York | Below is a list of U.S. senators who have represented the State of New York in the United States Senate since 1789. The date of the start of the tenure is either the first day of the legislative term (senators who were elected regularly before the term began), or the day when they took the seat (U.S. senators who were ... |
416437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20United%20States%20senators%20from%20North%20Carolina | List of United States senators from North Carolina | North Carolina ratified the Constitution on November 21, 1789, after the beginning of the 1st Congress. Its current senators are Republicans Thom Tillis and Ted Budd. Jesse Helms was North Carolina's longest-serving senator (1973–2003).
List of senators
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416442 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20United%20States%20senators%20from%20Ohio | List of United States senators from Ohio | Ohio was admitted to the Union on March 1, 1803, and elects U.S. senators to class 1 and class 3. Its current U.S. senators are Democrat Sherrod Brown (serving since 2007) and Republican J. D. Vance (serving since 2023), making it one of six states to have a split United States Senate delegation; these states being Mai... |
416445 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20United%20States%20senators%20from%20Pennsylvania | List of United States senators from Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania ratified the United States Constitution on December 12, 1787, and elects its U.S. senators to class 1 and class 3. Officeholders are popularly elected, for a six-year term, beginning January 3. Elections are held the first Tuesday after November 1. Before 1914, they were chosen by the Pennsylvania General ... |
416451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20United%20States%20senators%20from%20Rhode%20Island | List of United States senators from Rhode Island | Rhode Island ratified the United States Constitution on May 29, 1790 and elects its U.S. senators to class 1 and class 2. The state's current U.S. senators are Democrats Jack Reed (since 1997) and Sheldon Whitehouse (since 2007). Claiborne Pell was Rhode Island's longest-serving senator (1961–1997).
List of senators
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416452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20United%20States%20senators%20from%20South%20Carolina | List of United States senators from South Carolina | South Carolina ratified the United States Constitution on May 23, 1788. Its Senate seats were declared vacant in July 1861 owing to its secession from the Union. They were again filled from July 1868. The state's current U.S. senators are Republicans Lindsey Graham, serving since 2003, and Tim Scott, serving since 2013... |
416456 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20United%20States%20senators%20from%20Tennessee | List of United States senators from Tennessee | Tennessee was admitted to the Union on June 1, 1796. Its United States Senate seats were declared vacant in March 1862 owing to its secession from the Union. They were again filled from July 1866. Tennessee's current senators are Republicans Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty. Kenneth McKellar was Tennessee's longest-se... |
416469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20United%20States%20senators%20from%20Virginia | List of United States senators from Virginia | Virginia has sent senators to the U.S. Senate since 1789. Its Senate seats were declared vacant in March 1861, due to its secession from the Union, but senators representing its western counties continued to sit until March 1865. Virginia's Senate seats were again filled from January 1870. Virginia's current senators ... |
416470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20United%20States%20senators%20from%20Vermont | List of United States senators from Vermont | Vermont was admitted to the Union on March 4, 1791. From the 1850s until well into the 20th century, Vermont was always represented by members of the Republican Party. Democrat Patrick Leahy (served 1975–2023) is the longest serving senator. Its current members of the United States Senate are Independent Bernie Sanders... |
416499 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20Rapid%20Transit%20%28Singapore%29 | Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) | The Mass Rapid Transit system, locally known by the initialism MRT, is a rapid transit system in Singapore and the island country's principal mode of railway transportation. The system commenced operations in November 1987 after two decades of planning with an initial stretch consisting of five stations. The network h... |
416501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd%20Division%20%28Australia%29 | 3rd Division (Australia) | The 3rd Division was an infantry division of the Australian Army. Existing during various periods between 1916 and 1991, it is considered the "longest serving Australian Army division". It was first formed during World War I, as an infantry division of the Australian Imperial Force and saw service on the Western Front ... |
416509 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th%20Division%20%28Australia%29 | 4th Division (Australia) | The Australian 4th Division was formed in the First World War during the expansion of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) infantry brigades in February 1916. In addition to the experienced 4th Brigade (previously in the original New Zealand and Australian Division) were added the new 12th and 13th Brigades (spawned fr... |
416514 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20Page | Karen Page | Karen Page is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She serves as the original love interest for Daredevil, under Matt Murdock's employ as his legal secretary. In 1999, Page was killed by Bullseye, and since the 1980s her role as primary love interest has been superseded by... |
416517 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imad%20Mughniyeh | Imad Mughniyeh | Imad Fayez Mughniyeh (; 7 December 1962 – 12 February 2008), alias al-Hajj Radwan (), was the founding member of Lebanon's Islamic Jihad Organization and number two in Hezbollah's leadership. Information about Mughniyeh is limited, but he is believed to have been Hezbollah's chief of staff and understood to have overse... |
416522 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Zealand%20and%20Australian%20Division | New Zealand and Australian Division | The New Zealand and Australian Division was a composite army division raised for service in the First World War under the command of Major General Alexander Godley. Consisting of several mounted and standard infantry brigades from both New Zealand and Australia, it served in the Gallipoli Campaign between April and Dec... |
416605 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh%20National%20Opera | Welsh National Opera | Welsh National Opera (WNO) () is an opera company based in Cardiff, Wales; it gave its first performances in 1946. It began as a mainly amateur body and transformed into an all-professional ensemble by 1973. In its early days the company gave a single week's annual season in Cardiff, gradually extending its schedule to... |
416612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-validation%20%28statistics%29 | Cross-validation (statistics) | Cross-validation, sometimes called rotation estimation or out-of-sample testing, is any of various similar model validation techniques for assessing how the results of a statistical analysis will generalize to an independent data set.
Cross-validation is a resampling method that uses different portions of the data to t... |
416630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ancient%20Celtic%20peoples%20and%20tribes | List of ancient Celtic peoples and tribes | This is a list of Celtic tribes, organized in order of the likely ethnolinguistic kinship of the peoples and tribes.
In Classical antiquity, Celts were a large number and a significant part of the population in many regions of Western Europe, Southern Central Europe, the British Isles and parts of the Balkans, in Europ... |
416641 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20Isaacs | Jason Isaacs | Jason Isaacs (born 6 June 1963) is an English actor. His film roles include Colonel William Tavington in The Patriot (2000), Michael D. Steele in Black Hawk Down (2001), Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter film series (2002–2011), Captain Hook in Peter Pan (2003), Marshal Georgy Zhukov in The Death of Stalin (2017), and ... |
416666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20energy | Surface energy | In surface science, surface energy (also interfacial free energy or surface free energy) quantifies the disruption of intermolecular bonds that occurs when a surface is created. In solid-state physics, surfaces must be intrinsically less energetically favorable than the bulk of the material (the atoms on the surface ha... |
416688 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20White | Jack White | John Anthony White (; born July 9, 1975) is an American musician who served as the lead singer, guitarist and primary songwriter of rock duo the White Stripes. White is widely credited as one of the key artists in the garage rock revival of the 2000s. He has won 12 Grammy Awards, and three of his solo albums have reach... |
416699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Pakistanis | List of Pakistanis | Pakistan is the fifth most populous nation in the world. Below is a list of some notable people who relate to the country. See Pakistani people for a list of pages about notable Pakistanis by category.
Heads of state or government
Civil / democratically elected administrators
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, "Quaid-e-Azam"; firs... |
416729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allie%20Reynolds | Allie Reynolds | Allie Pierce Reynolds (February 10, 1917 – December 26, 1994) was an American professional baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB). Reynolds pitched in MLB for the Cleveland Indians (1942–1946) and New York Yankees (1947–1954). A member of the Creek nation, Reynolds was nicknamed "Superchief".
Reynolds attende... |
416737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20people%20from%20Alabama | List of people from Alabama | This is a listing of notable people born in, or notable for their association with the U.S. state of Alabama.
A
Hank Aaron, Hall of Fame Major League Baseball player (Mobile)
Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader, Baptist Minister (Linden)
Act of Congress musical group
Austin Adams, MLB pitcher, Cleveland Indian... |
416754 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photodynamic%20therapy | Photodynamic therapy | Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a form of phototherapy involving light and a photosensitizing chemical substance, used in conjunction with molecular oxygen to elicit cell death (phototoxicity).
PDT is popularly used in treating acne. It is used clinically to treat a wide range of medical conditions, including wet age-r... |
416764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965%20Palm%20Sunday%20tornado%20outbreak | 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak | On April 10–12, 1965, a devastating severe weather event affected the Midwestern and Southeastern United States. The tornado outbreak produced 55 confirmed tornadoes in one day and 16 hours. The worst part of the outbreak occurred during the afternoon hours of April 11 into the overnight hours going into April 12. The ... |
416768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentley%20Arnage | Bentley Arnage | The Bentley Arnage is a full-size high performance luxury car manufactured by Bentley Motors in Crewe, England, from 1998 to 2009. The Arnage and its Rolls-Royce-branded sibling, the Silver Seraph, were introduced in the spring of 1998. They were the first entirely new designs for the two marques since 1980.
The Arnag... |
416787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington%20Runestone | Kensington Runestone | The Kensington Runestone is a slab of greywacke stone covered in runes that was discovered in central Minnesota in 1898. Olof Öhman, a Swedish immigrant, reported that he unearthed it from a field in the largely rural township of Solem in Douglas County. It was later named after the nearest settlement, Kensington.
Th... |
416795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandura | Bandura | A bandura () is a Ukrainian plucked-string folk-instrument. It combines elements of the zither and lute and, up until the 1940s, was also often called a kobza. Early instruments () had 5 to 12 strings and resembled lutes. In the 20th century, the number of strings increased initially to 31 strings (1926), then to 56 st... |
416796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy%20Rich | Buddy Rich | Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30, 1917 – April 2, 1987) was an American jazz drummer, songwriter, conductor, and bandleader. He is considered one of the most influential drummers of all time.
Rich was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, United States. He discovered his affinity for jazz music at a young age and b... |
416798 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Jews%20in%20Poland | History of the Jews in Poland | The history of the Jews in Poland dates back at least 1,000 years. For centuries, Poland was home to the largest and most significant Ashkenazi Jewish community in the world. Poland was a principal center of Jewish culture, because of the long period of statutory religious tolerance and social autonomy which ended afte... |
416803 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOSUS | SOSUS | Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) was the original name for a submarine detection system based on passive sonar developed by the United States Navy to track Soviet submarines. The system's true nature was classified with the name and acronym SOSUS classified as well. The unclassified name Project Caesar was used to cov... |
416813 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Minnesota | University of Minnesota | The University of Minnesota (formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. The Twin Cities campus comprises locations in Minneapolis and Falcon Heights, a suburb of St. Paul, approximately apart.... |
416882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20of%20Syria | Music of Syria | When speaking of the music of Syria, it is important to remember that there are certain musical traditions and practices that have been present in Syria longer than others. There have been musical influences introduced into Syria through multiple eras of conquest and influences from surrounding cultures in modern-day S... |
416912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Church%20of%20Jesus%20Christ%20%28Bickertonite%29 | The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite) | The Church of Jesus Christ is an international Christian religious denomination headquartered in Monongahela, Pennsylvania, United States. The church is a Christian Restorationist church and accepts the Book of Mormon as scripture. The church considers itself the gospel restored, or the original church and good news as... |
416913 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate%20Hoey | Kate Hoey | Catharine Letitia Hoey, Baroness Hoey (born 21 June 1946), better known as Kate Hoey, is a Northern Irish politician and life peer who served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Home Affairs from 1998 to 1999 and Minister for Sport from 1999 to 2001. During the 1970s Hoey was involved in radical far-left groups but by... |
416927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGVX | WGVX | WGVX (105.1 MHz), WLUP (105.3 MHz) and WWWM-FM (105.7 MHz) are three separate radio stations that make up a trimulcast serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul radio market. The three stations are owned by Cumulus Media, along with sister stations KQRS-FM and KXXR. The three stations broadcast an adult contemporary radio for... |
416941 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich%20Wolfgang%20Korngold | Erich Wolfgang Korngold | Erich Wolfgang Korngold (May 29, 1897 – November 29, 1957) was a Moravian-born American composer and conductor. A child prodigy, he became one of the most important and influential composers in Hollywood history. He was a noted pianist and composer of classical music, along with music for Hollywood films, and the first... |
416943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20of%20Jesus%20Christ%20%28Cutlerite%29 | Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite) | The Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite) is a denomination of the Latter Day Saint movement headquartered in Independence, Missouri, United States. The church derives its epithet from its founder, Alpheus Cutler, a member of the Nauvoo High Council and of Joseph Smith's Council of Fifty. Cutler justified his establishmen... |
416945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthohantavirus | Orthohantavirus | Orthohantavirus is a genus of single-stranded, enveloped, negative-sense RNA viruses in the family Hantaviridae within the order Bunyavirales. Members of this genus may be called orthohantaviruses or simply hantaviruses.
Orthohantaviruses typically cause chronic asymptomatic infection in rodents. Humans may become inf... |
416953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrom | Carrom | Carrom is a tabletop game of Indian origin in which players flick discs, attempting to knock them to the corners of the board. The game is very popular in the Indian subcontinent, and is known by various names in different languages. In South Asia, many clubs and cafés hold regular tournaments. Carrom is very commonly ... |
417016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Man%20Group | Blue Man Group | Blue Man Group is an American performance art company formed in 1987. Blue Man Group is known for its stage productions, which incorporate many kinds of music and art, both popular and obscure. Its performers, known as Blue Men, have their skin painted blue. They are mute during shows and always appear in groups of thr... |
417021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-6-2 | 4-6-2 | Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and two trailing wheels on one axle. The locomotive became almost globally known as a Pacific type after a New Zealand locom... |
417027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Repertory%20Theater | American Repertory Theater | The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) is a professional not-for-profit theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1979 by Robert Brustein, the A.R.T. is known for its commitment to new American plays and music–theater explorations; to neglected works of the past; and to established classical texts reinterpreted ... |
417037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchandise%20Mart | Merchandise Mart | The Merchandise Mart (or the Merch Mart, or the Mart) is a commercial building located in downtown Chicago, Illinois. When it was opened in 1930, it was the largest building in the world, with of floor space. The Art Deco structure is located at the junction of the Chicago River's branches. The building is a leading ... |
417044 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20estate%20investment%20trust | Real estate investment trust | A real estate investment trust (REIT, pronounced "reet") is a company that owns, and in most cases operates, income-producing real estate. REITs own many types of commercial real estate, including office and apartment buildings, warehouses, hospitals, shopping centers, hotels and commercial forests. Some REITs engage i... |
417063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V.%20S.%20Ramachandran | V. S. Ramachandran | Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran (born 10 August 1951) is an Indian-American neuroscientist. He is known for his wide-ranging experiments and theories in behavioral neurology, including the invention of the mirror box. Ramachandran is a distinguished professor in UCSD's Department of Psychology, where he is the direc... |
417068 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anesthesiology | Anesthesiology | Anesthesiology, anaesthesiology, or anaesthesia is the medical specialty concerned with the total perioperative care of patients before, during and after surgery. It encompasses anesthesia, intensive care medicine, critical emergency medicine, and pain medicine. A physician specialized in anesthesiology is called an a... |
417111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain%20management | Pain management | Pain management is an aspect of medicine and health care involving relief of pain (pain relief, analgesia, pain control) in various dimensions, from acute and simple to chronic and challenging. Most physicians and other health professionals provide some pain control in the normal course of their practice, and for the m... |
417121 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon%20Red%2C%20Blue%2C%20and%20Yellow | Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow | Pokémon Red Version and Pokémon Blue Version are 1996 role-playing video games developed by Game Freak and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy. They are the first installments of the Pokémon video game series. They were first released in Japan in 1996 as and with the special edition being released in Japan later ... |
417126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pugwash%20Conferences%20on%20Science%20and%20World%20Affairs | Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs | The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs is an international organization that brings together scholars and public figures to work toward reducing the danger of armed conflict and to seek solutions to global security threats. It was founded in 1957 by Joseph Rotblat and Bertrand Russell in Pugwash, Nova Sco... |
417136 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn%20Museum | Penn Museum | Penn Museum, formerly known as The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, is an archaeology and anthropology museum at the University of Pennsylvania. It is located on Penn's campus in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia, at the intersection of 33rd and South Streets. It also is... |
417140 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greed%20%28game%20show%29 | Greed (game show) | Greed is an American television game show that aired on Fox for one season. Chuck Woolery was the show's host while Mark Thompson was its announcer. The series format consisted of a team of contestants who answered a set of up to eight multiple-choice questions (the first set of four containing one right answer and the... |
417152 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal%20Engine | Unreal Engine | Unreal Engine (UE) is a series of 3D computer graphics game engines developed by Epic Games, first showcased in the 1998 first-person shooter video game Unreal. Initially developed for PC first-person shooters, it has since been used in a variety of genres of games and has seen adoption by other industries, most notabl... |
417157 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda%20Fit | Honda Fit | The Honda Fit (Japanese: ホンダ・フィット, Hepburn: Honda Fitto) or Honda Jazz is a small car manufactured and marketed by Honda since 2001 over four generations. It has a five-door hatchback body style and is considered a supermini in the United Kingdom, a subcompact car in the United States, and a light car in Australia. Mar... |
417160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS | ETOPS | ETOPS () is an acronym for Extended-range Twin-engine Operations Performance Standards—a special part of flight rules for one-engine-inoperative flight conditions. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) coined the acronym for twin-engine aircraft operation in airspace further than one hour from a diversio... |
417201 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet%20Jackson%27s%20Rhythm%20Nation%201814 | Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 | Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 (popularized as Rhythm Nation) is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Janet Jackson, released on September 19, 1989, by A&M Records. Although label executives wanted material similar to her previous album, Control (1986), Jackson insisted on creating a concept album ... |
417205 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-8-2 | 4-8-2 | Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of four leading wheels, eight powered and coupled driving wheels and two trailing wheels. This type of steam locomotive is commonly known as the Mountain type.
Overview
The Colony of Natal in South Africa and New Ze... |
417211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20Elam | Jason Elam | Jason Elam (born March 8, 1970) is an American former professional football player who was a placekicker in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Denver Broncos. He was selected by Denver in the third round of the 1993 NFL Draft and played 15 seasons with the Broncos and two with the Atlanta Falcons.
... |
417216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Scorpion%20%28SSN-589%29 | USS Scorpion (SSN-589) | USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was a Skipjack-class nuclear-powered submarine that served in the United States Navy, and the sixth vessel, and second submarine, of the U.S. Navy to carry that name.
Scorpion was lost with all hands on 22 May 1968. She is one of two nuclear submarines the U.S. Navy has lost, the other being . S... |
417221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%20Seadragon%20%28SS-194%29 | USS Seadragon (SS-194) | USS Seadragon (SS-194), a Sargo-class submarine, was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the leafy seadragon.
Construction and commissioning
Seadragon′s keel was laid on 18 April 1938 by the Electric Boat Company at Groton, Connecticut. She was christened and launched on 21 April 1939, sponsored b... |
417243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freakazoid%21 | Freakazoid! | Freakazoid! is an American superhero comedy animated television series created by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini and developed by Tom Ruegger for the Kids' WB programming block of The WB. The series chronicles the adventures of the title character, Freakazoid, a crazy teenage superhero who fights crime in Washington, D.C. It... |
417261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Plymouth | University of Plymouth | The University of Plymouth is a public research university based predominantly in Plymouth, England, where the main campus is located, but the university has campuses and affiliated colleges across South West England. With students, it is the largest in the United Kingdom by total number of students (including the Op... |
417262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas%20truce | Christmas truce | The Christmas truce (; ; ) was a series of widespread unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front of the First World War around Christmas 1914.
The truce occurred five months after hostilities had begun. Lulls occurred in the fighting as armies ran out of men and munitions and commanders reconsidered their strategie... |
417310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Osborn | Harry Osborn | Harold Theopolis "Harry" Osborn is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the superhero Spider-Man. Created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, the character first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #31 (December 1965).
Harry is the best friend of Pete... |
417324 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Lone%20Pine | Battle of Lone Pine | The Battle of Lone Pine (also known as the Battle of Kanlı Sırt) was fought between Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) and Ottoman Empire forces during the Gallipoli Campaign of the First World War, between 6 and 10 August 1915. The battle was part of a diversionary attack to draw Ottoman attention away from... |
417362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney%20Grammar%20School | Sydney Grammar School | Sydney Grammar School (SGS, known colloquially as Grammar) is an independent, fee-paying, non-denominational day school for boys, located in Sydney, Australia.
Incorporated in 1854 by Act of Parliament and opened in 1857, the school claims to offer a "classical" or "grammar" school education thought of as liberal, hum... |
417422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20Argentina | Flag of Argentina | The national flag of the Argentine Republic, often referred to as the Argentine flag (), is a triband, composed of three equally wide horizontal bands coloured light blue and white. There are multiple interpretations on the reasons for those colors. The flag was created by Manuel Belgrano, in line with the creation of... |
417429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist%20Party%20of%20Serbia | Socialist Party of Serbia | The Socialist Party of Serbia (, abbr. SPS) is a political party in Serbia. Ivica Dačić has led SPS as its president since 2006.
SPS was founded in 1990 as a merger of the League of Communists of Serbia and Socialist Alliance of Working People of Yugoslavia with Slobodan Milošević as its first president. In the 1990 ... |
417439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Wicker | Roger Wicker | Roger Frederick Wicker (born July 5, 1951) is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Mississippi, a seat he has held since 2007. A member of the Republican Party, Wicker was a Mississippi State Senator from 1988 to 1995 and the U.S. Representative from Mississippi's 1st con... |
417454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%20school%20of%20economics | Chicago school of economics | The Chicago school of economics is a neoclassical school of economic thought associated with the work of the faculty at the University of Chicago, some of whom have constructed and popularized its principles. Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell, and George Stigler are considered the leading scholars of the Chicago school.
... |
417459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd%20Akin | Todd Akin | William Todd Akin (July 5, 1947 – October 3, 2021) was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 2001 to 2013. He was a member of the Republican Party. Born in New York City, Akin grew up in the Greater St. Louis area. After receiving his bachelor's degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institu... |
417475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis%20MacShane | Denis MacShane | Denis MacShane (born Josef Denis Matyjaszek; 21 May 1948) is a British former politician, author, commentator and convicted criminal who served as Minister of State for Europe from 2002 to 2005. He joined the Labour Party in 1970 and has held most party offices. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Rotherham from 1994 ... |
417484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Hodge | Margaret Hodge | Dame Margaret Eve Hodge, Lady Hodge, (née Oppenheimer, formerly Watson; born 8 September 1944) is a British politician serving as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Barking since 1994. A member of the Labour Party, she previously served as Leader of Islington London Borough Council from 1982 to 1992. She has held a num... |
417492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Puttnam | David Puttnam | David Terence Puttnam, Baron Puttnam, CBE, HonFRSA, HonFRPS, MRIA (born 25 February 1941) is a British-Irish film producer, educator, environmentalist and former member of the House of Lords. His productions include Chariots of Fire, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, The Mission, The Killing Fields, Local H... |
417493 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macfarlane%20Burnet | Macfarlane Burnet | Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet (3 September 1899 – 31 August 1985), usually known as Macfarlane or Mac Burnet, was an Australian virologist known for his contributions to immunology. He won a Nobel Prize in 1960 for predicting acquired immune tolerance and he developed the theory of clonal selection.
Burnet received his... |
417532 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20Hunter | City Hunter | is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tsukasa Hojo. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1985 to 1991, with its chapters collected in 35 tankōbon volumes. The manga was adapted into an anime television series by Sunrise Studios in 1987. The anime series was popul... |
417559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Sugar | Alan Sugar | Alan Michael Sugar, Baron Sugar (born 24 March 1947) is a British business magnate, media personality, author, politician and political adviser. In 1968, he started what would later become his largest business venture, consumer electronics company Amstrad. In 2007, he sold his remaining interest in the company in a dea... |
417566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Davis | Bill Davis | William Grenville Davis, (July 30, 1929 – August 8, 2021) was a Canadian politician who served as the 18th premier of Ontario from 1971 to 1985. Behind Oliver Mowat, Davis was the second-longest serving premier of Ontario.
Born in Toronto, Davis was a lawyer before being elected as a Progressive Conservative member o... |
417624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross%2C%20Scotland | Ross, Scotland | Ross () is a region of Scotland. One of the provinces of Scotland from the 9th century, it gave its name to a later earldom and to the counties of Ross-shire and, later, Ross and Cromarty. The name Ross allegedly derives from a Gaelic word meaning "headland", perhaps a reference to the Black Isle. Another possible ori... |
417671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Black%20Buck | Operation Black Buck | Operations Black Buck 1 to Black Buck 7 were seven extremely long-range ground attack missions conducted during the 1982 Falklands War by Royal Air Force (RAF) Vulcan bombers of the RAF Waddington Wing, comprising aircraft from 44, 50 and 101 Squadrons, against Argentine positions in the Falkland Islands. Five of the ... |
417728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Davis%20%28Virginia%20politician%29 | Tom Davis (Virginia politician) | Thomas Milburn Davis III (born January 5, 1949) is an American lobbyist and former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives who represented Virginia's 11th congressional district in Northern Virginia. Davis was considering a run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by five-term incumbent and fe... |
417741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline%20Baynes | Pauline Baynes | Pauline Diana Baynes (9 September 19221 August 2008) was an English illustrator, author, and commercial artist. She contributed drawings and paintings to more than 200 books, mostly in the children's genre. She was the first illustrator of some of J. R. R. Tolkien's minor works and of C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia... |
417758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowlton%20Nash | Knowlton Nash | Cyril Knowlton Nash (November 18, 1927 – May 24, 2014) was a Canadian journalist, author and news anchor. He was senior anchor of CBC Television's flagship news program, The National from 1978 until his retirement in 1988. He began his career in journalism by selling newspapers on the streets of Toronto during World W... |
417769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMX-13 | AMX-13 | The AMX-13 is a French light tank produced from 1952 to 1987. It served with the French Army, as the Char 13t-75 Modèle 51, and was exported to more than 26 other nations. Named after its initial weight of 13 tonnes, and featuring a tough and reliable chassis, it was fitted with an oscillating turret built by GIAT Indu... |
417829 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20all-female%20bands | List of all-female bands | This is an alphabetized list of notable all-female bands, of all genres, and is a spin-off list from the all-female band article. It is an overview of notable all-female bands that have their own articles.
A band is a group of musicians who are organized for ensemble playing. An all-female band is a band which has c... |
417849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action%20game | Action game | An action game is a video game genre that emphasizes physical challenges, including hand–eye coordination and reaction time. The genre includes a large variety of sub-genres, such as fighting games, beat 'em ups, shooter games, and platform games. Multiplayer online battle arena and some real-time strategy games are al... |
417850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac%20Escalade | Cadillac Escalade | The Cadillac Escalade is a full-size luxury SUV engineered and manufactured by General Motors. It was Cadillac's first major entry into the SUV market. The Escalade was introduced for the 1999 model year in response to an influx of new luxury SUVs in the late 1990s such as the Mercedes-Benz M-Class, Range Rover and Lex... |
417851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac%20Eldorado | Cadillac Eldorado | The Cadillac Eldorado is a luxury car manufactured and marketed by Cadillac from 1952 until 2002 over twelve generations.
The Eldorado was at or near the top of the Cadillac line. The original 1953 Eldorado convertible and the Eldorado Brougham models of 1957–1960 had distinct bodyshells and were the most expensive mo... |
417858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict%20Arnold | Benedict Arnold | Benedict Arnold (June 14, 1801) was an American-born military officer who served during the American Revolutionary War. He fought with distinction for the American Continental Army and rose to the rank of major general before defecting to the British in 1780. General George Washington had given him his fullest trust an... |
417929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LASIK | LASIK | LASIK or Lasik (laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis), commonly referred to as laser eye surgery or laser vision correction, is a type of refractive surgery for the correction of myopia, hyperopia, and an actual cure for astigmatism, since it is in the cornea. LASIK surgery is performed by an ophthalmologist who uses ... |
417945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater%20Serbia | Greater Serbia | The term Greater Serbia or Great Serbia () describes the Serbian nationalist and irredentist ideology of the creation of a Serb state which would incorporate all regions of traditional significance to Serbs, a South Slavic ethnic group, including regions outside modern-day Serbia that are partly populated by Serbs. The... |
417954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Caledonian | British Caledonian | British Caledonian (BCal) was a British private independent airline which operated out of London Gatwick Airport in south-east England during the 1970s and 1980s. It was created as an alternative to the British government-controlled corporation airlines and was described as the "Second Force" in the 1969 Edwards report... |
417972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazanlak | Kazanlak | Kazanlak ( ; ), known as Seuthopolis () in ancient times, is a town in Stara Zagora Province, Bulgaria. It is located in the middle of the plain of the same name, at the foot of the Balkan mountain range, at the eastern end of the Rose Valley. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Kazanlak Municipality.
Th... |
417987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaQuest%20DSV | SeaQuest DSV | SeaQuest DSV (stylized as seaQuest DSV and also promoted as simply seaQuest) is an American science fiction television series created by Rockne S. O'Bannon. It aired on NBC between 1993 and 1996. In its final season, it was renamed seaQuest 2032. Set in "the near future" (the year 2018 in the first season), seaQuest DS... |
418001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th%20Mountain%20Division%20%28United%20States%29 | 10th Mountain Division (United States) | The 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) is a light infantry division in the United States Army based at Fort Drum, New York. Formerly designated as a mountain warfare unit, the division was the only one of its size in the US military to receive specialized training for fighting in mountainous conditions. More recen... |
418065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuyvesant%20High%20School | Stuyvesant High School | Stuyvesant High School (pronounced ), commonly referred to among its students as Stuy (pronounced ), is a public college-preparatory, specialized high school in New York City, United States. Operated by the New York City Department of Education, these specialized schools offer tuition-free accelerated academics to cit... |
418082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Toft | Mary Toft | Mary Toft (née Denyer; c. 1701–1763), also spelled Tofts, was an English woman from Godalming, Surrey, who in 1726 became the subject of considerable controversy when she tricked doctors into believing that she had given birth to rabbits.
In 1726, Toft became pregnant, but following her reported fascination with the s... |
418087 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu%27er%20tea | Pu'er tea | Pu'er or pu-erh (Wade-Giles p'u-erh) is a variety of fermented tea traditionally produced in Yunnan Province, China. In the context of traditional Chinese tea production terminology, fermentation refers to microbial fermentation (called 'wet piling'), and is typically applied after the tea leaves have been sufficiently... |
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